Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by fuzzmeister » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:09 AM UTC

Zak wrote: post #2

No. Facebook already has enough of my data inside its walled garden. It's not getting control of my logins to other services. Add another signup method and I'll give your site due consideration.

While there are certainly people (especially on HN) who are unwilling to give Facebook this kind of control, I don't think it will be a problem for the vast majority of users. In my opinion, the power of having an identity behind all of your users far outweighs the cost of the few who will not use Facebook Connect.

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by ccheever » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:13 AM UTC

fuzzmeister wrote: post #10

This is very well made, great job. A few things: - Why do I have to choose the best square thumbnail picture? Facebook already provides you with pic_square through their API. - Profile thumbnails are not loading unless I view the user's profile page first. Here's an example, where I have clicked through to Adam's profile but not the others: http://grab.by/36FP - The main feed seems a little too text-heavy to me. Have…

- re: profile pics. pic_square pics are only 50x50 (iirc?), and we needed square pics that were bigger than that.

- re: thumbnails not loading. i've never seen that before. it might be a problem with S3. If you e-mail a link to your profile to bugs@quora.com, I can look through our logs and try to debug more.

- re: feed.

We're making a lot of changes to the feed all the time. Thanks for the feedback.

- re: buttons.

All @artypapers.

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by ccheever » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:14 AM UTC

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #9

Awesome! I've heard great things about it so far. On my iPhone but will give it a whirl when I get back home.

Signup from it is a little tricky but we do have an iPhone (+ Android, Palm, etc.) site that works pretty well.

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by markbao » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:15 AM UTC

Quora is one of those really amazing sites that you really enjoy using a lot because the UI and UX are impeccable. Things are responsive, actions have weight, and it's just overall very pleasant to use. Congratulations on that—it's nothing short of a masterpiece.

I really like the concept of following topics. I think something that could be worked on is the following questions thing—last time I used it, it was difficult to figure out that a question I'm following has received a follow-up.

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:21 AM UTC

ccheever wrote: post #13

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #9

Awesome! I've heard great things about it so far. On my iPhone but will give it a whirl when I get back home.

Signup from it is a little tricky but we do have an iPhone (+ Android, Palm, etc.) site that works pretty well.

It worked pretty well with fb connect. Moreso, I'm at the gym and I want to spend some decent time with the app that's uninterrupted.

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by _delirium » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:29 AM UTC

fuzzmeister wrote: post #11

Zak wrote: post #2

No. Facebook already has enough of my data inside its walled garden. It's not getting control of my logins to other services. Add another signup method and I'll give your site due consideration.

While there are certainly people (especially on HN) who are unwilling to give Facebook this kind of control, I don't think it will be a problem for the vast majority of users. In my opinion, the power of having an identity behind all of your users far outweighs the cost of the few who will not use Facebook Connect.

I'm not sure this is a reliable way to get an identity behind all of your users. It was reliable back when Facebook required .edu email addresses, but these days there are huge numbers of fake profiles, and it's easy to create a throwaway profile if you need one to sign up for a site.

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by ronnier » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:38 AM UTC

Clickable link: http://quora.com/hackernews

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by jayair » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:39 AM UTC

ccheever wrote: post #7

Zak wrote: post #2

No. Facebook already has enough of my data inside its walled garden. It's not getting control of my logins to other services. Add another signup method and I'll give your site due consideration.

We have our own login system. We just use Facebook to connect you to people you know and get your photo. Having real identities for people and having people connected to other people who know them are important for the system to work, and we found that the best way to get those things was to require Facebook to sign up. We might add other ways to sign up later.

I tried it and liked it. Great job!

But I too am a bit iffy about the FB login. Mainly cos I feel it might post stuff to my wall. I am sure you guys don't do that. But I wanted to put it out there since that might be a concern other people might have as well.

Re: Show HN: Review my startup: Quora, a topic based question and answer site

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Post by ccheever » Wed, Mar 17, 2010, 12:44 AM UTC

jayair wrote: post #18

ccheever wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have our own login system. We just use Facebook to connect you to people you know and get your photo. Having real identities for people and having people connected to other people who know them are important for the system to work, and we found that the best way to get those things was to require Facebook to sign up. We might add other ways to sign up later.

I tried it and liked it. Great job! But I too am a bit iffy about the FB login. Mainly cos I feel it might post stuff to my wall. I am sure you guys don't do that. But I wanted to put it out there since that might be a concern other people might have as well.

Yeah. We don't post anything to any service right now, and we'll never do that except when you want it to happen, but I think you're right that people are worried about that since there are so many apps that do that kind of stuff.